Bulletin Rotary Club Vancouver Sunrise January 30 2013

Posted by Eduardo De Santiago 
on Jan 30, 2013
 
 

Rotary Club of Vancouver Sunrise

January 30, 2013

Today we had two visitors, Steve McGrandle, a potential member for our club, and Shail Mahanti  from the Arbutus Club.

Happy Birthday to Diane, Alfredo and Cleopatra who celebrated their birthdays this week!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

  • We are going to be our annual Valentine’s Auction on February 13th. We invite you to bring any item you want for the auction. It could be a bottle of wine, flower, even a getaway weekend in a nice cabin down in the USA! Please email Abigail and let her know what you are planning what item are you planning to bring.
  • On Tuesday Jan 29th, we had a meeting in Strathcona Community Centre about the Hoopathon 2013. The committee is formed and this year we will need everybody’s support to make this even a big success. We are aiming to raise CAD$40,000 this year and a 100 per cent participation of our club members, to make this happen. The Hoppathon will be on June 15th at 10:00am. This is going to be a great event and lots of fun.
  • This year, Rotary Clubs in British Columbia are celebrating the 100th Anniversary, since the first Rotary club in British Columbia, The Rotary Club of Vancouver, was chartered on April 22, 1913. Tis celebration will take place on April 16th, 19th and 20th with a closing gala evening event with a world-renowned speaker.
  • This coming Wednesday February 6th, we are holding our club’s strategic planning meeting. The focus will be to go through the strategic and annual plan and to do a SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) analysis. Your participation and ideas are very important, so please try to attend to this meeting. See email from Lawrence for more details.

 

SPEAKER 

Our speaker this week was Cam Scott who gave us a wonderful photo presentation of his last trip to South Africa (Kruger, Cape Town, Johannesburg). In his presentation we could see how beautiful this part of the world is. 

Cam’s slides included great pictures of landscapes and the large variety of wild life, including elephants, monkeys, impalas, hippopotamus, buffalos, lions, giraffes, rhinos, zebras, hyenas, and even turtles having fun!

There were many wonderful vistas.

 

SPECIAL CELEBRATION

We celebrated Robbie Burns, the most famous of all Scottish poets, day with a yummy (?) Haggis. The haggis was brought to the meeting room while a bagpiper played a short musical recital. Bill started by reading the Address to a Haggis, and then some of us who were brave enough, proceed to eat a piece of Haggis.


THOUGHT OF THE DAY

“We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.” - Rudyard Kipling.

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